Our lunch stop today was overlooking the little town of Boat Harbour – a place my mum & dad loved too. It was a bit windy but still the view was fab.

After a drive back into the forests for the afternoon, we head for Stanley for the night – and take the kids to climb The Nut at sunset and wait for the mutton birds to come home to their nests, something I did as a child with my mum & dad too. Its cold and windy, but Max and Leni were excited to see the birds, so they made it up the steep incline.

We did the 45min circuit track first, and along the way on the path we saw only our 4th snake of the whole trip. A little tiger snake, surprising as it was a cold night.

The birds came, they circled around in the updrafts near the cliff edges before swooping into their burrows, we were all glad we made the effort to get out of the comfort of the cabin we had for the night.

Next morning we took part in one of the free National Parks activities. It was a Rockpool Ramble, on the beach below the nut. Ranger Jess taught the kids about starfish, waratah anemones, urchins and the very cool decorator crab – it covers itself in seaweed for disguise – see in the container below.